Music Appreciation Final General

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leading composer of musical Impressionism

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Claude Debussy

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First significant American composer of twentieth century concert music

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Charles Ives

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The dean of American composers and composer of Fanfare for the Common Man

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Aaron Copland

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Russian composer who many consider the most significant musical figure of the twentieth century.

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Igor Stravinsky

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Developed the twelve tone system.

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Arnold Shoenberg

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First black composer to have a composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra.

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William Grant Still

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Modernistic composer, collected, edited and arranged folksongs.

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Ruth Crawford

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Works containing deliberate quotations from other music.

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Quotation

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characterized by a steady pulse, clear tonality and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns.

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Minimalistic

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certain elements are not precisely specified by the composer, but left to chance in a way usually specified by the composer.

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Chance Music

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Electronic music with a slideshow, film, or light show.

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Mixed Media

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A rhythmic group of pitches

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Ostinato

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a style of piano playing developed by
black musician playing in bars, dives and brothels.
Left hand is strictly on the beat. Right hand has
syncopated rhythm in a crisp cheerful way.

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Ragtime

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improvising simultaneously

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Jamming

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black folk song whose subject is loneliness,trouble, depression and lost love. Emerged in the
1900’s.

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Blues

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spontaneous creation of music

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Improvisation

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a short or catchy motif that forms the memorable core of the song right at the beginning.

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Hook

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instruments that provide the basic accompaniment strike a single note on a downbeat of a measure together and then remain silent for the rest of the measure

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Stop Time

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Exerpts from earlier composers

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Musical location

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Musical style where modern/tradition elements combined

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Post Modernism

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Name the Periods of Jazz in order

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New Orleans Jazz
Chicago Jazz
Big Band Era
Bebop
CoolJazz/ Modal

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Place the six musical periods discussed in class earliest to latest

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1. Middle Ages 4. Classical
2. Renaissance 5. Romantic
3. Baroque 6. Twentieth Century/Jazz

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1. The predominantly French style which flourished in the early twentieth century and presents the listener with subtle timbres and somewhat abstract melody and harmony is ______________ ____________________________.

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Impressionism

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2. Music that does not exhibit a gravitational pull to a central tone and is not in a key is said to be _________________ ____________________.

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atonal

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3. Combining several often opposing rhythm patterns simultaneously is known as ___________________________________________.

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Polyrhythm__

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4. One of the most significant technological developments which affected music in the twentieth century was Thomas Edison’s _______________________.

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_Phonograph__

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5. A French master, _________________________, was perhaps the first twentieth century musical thinker.

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_Debussy__

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6. Simultaneous combining of chords common to two different keys at once, as Stravinsky did in The Rite of Spring, is an example of _______________.

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_Polytonality____

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7. One of the most innovative composers of the early twentieth century was Arnold Schoenberg, who abandoned tonal music and developed his _________________ system of composition.

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___12-tone

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8. A style used by Stravinsky that uses pounding rhythms, heavy accents and tone clusters is described as ____________________________.

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primitiveism_

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9. The aesthetic movement which began in Germany and Austria, which focused on the often dark side of the human psyche, and which included art and drama, is represented in much of the music of Schoenberg , and is known as _____________________________.

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Expressionism

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10. A rhythmic repetition of a group of pitches is __________________________.

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Ostinato

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19. The leading composer of musical Impressionism.

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Claude Debussy

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20. The first significant American composer of twentieth century concert music:
_________________________________________

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Charles Ives_

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21. Modernistic American Composer who also collected, edited and arranged folksongs.
__________________________________________

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Ruth Crawford__

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22. The Russian composer who many consider the most significant musical figure of the twentieth century:
_________________________________________

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Igor Stravinsky_

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23. The composer who established a direct and popular style of American concert music and who was said to be the “Dean” of American composers:
________________________________________

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_Aaron Copland

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24. The first African American composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra and the first African American to conduct a major America Orchestra.
__________________________________________

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William Grant Still

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Fanfare for the Common man will always be a phantom______________

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National Anthem

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Copland grew up in

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Brooklyn

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Copland studied music in

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Paris

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Copland's mission was to make

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American Music

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Copland wrote ____________________, a Ballet about the old west

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Billy the Kid

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Copland- Won the Politzer Prize and the New york's Music Critics award

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Appalachian Spring

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Copland wrote music for a _____________________ called Sorcery to science. Worlds Fair in New York City.

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Puppet Show

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Copland's first movie score was for

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Of Mice and Men

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First Jazz Great

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Buddy Bolder

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Father of Jazz trupmet

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Louis Armstrong

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The producing of______________ was the msot important to the spread of Jazz

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Records

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Jazz Orchestrator_____________ was a new york based bandleader and compser compared to Louis Armstrong in his influentialness.
Wrote charts with specific msuicians in mind

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Duke Ellington

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Played all blues based music

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Count Basie

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In the 1930's the bands most important promotional tool was

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Live Radio

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King of Swing

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Benny Goodman

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Turned the voice into an instrument

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Billie Holiday

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First significant female Jazz vocalist

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Bessie Smith

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Queen of scat, blurred lines of pop and JAzz

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Ella fitzgerald

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Bebop was created here

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Minton's house

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Master composer who played piano like orchestra

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Thelonious Monk

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Explored modal approach to JAzz.
Bitche(Fuckthefilters)s Brew, Jazz rock fusion

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Miles Davis

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Jazz is in a state of arrested development

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There is no answer. I don't even know what that means.

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Took jazz saxophone to a new level

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John Coltrane

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Max Steiner wrote a score for

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Goen with the wind

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In Radiers of the lsot Arc, John Williams used__________ register to enable the viewer to hear music over the rumbling stone

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Upper

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Speeding up and slowing down in music

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Rubato

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Some of the most virtuosic players have played for the movies.

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Jsut a statement, move along

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Movies have a/n ________________ playing when you wlak into a theatre

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Overture

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Shortly after the score for Star Wars was completed John Williams became the conductor of the

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Boston Pops

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A film score is heard by___________people

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1/2 billion

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Future of music is connected to

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Visual Arts